Karnataka

Puttur, Dec 20: An accident involving the death of a woman at Kabaka in Puttur soon snowballed into a tense situation ending in saffron activists laying siege to the police station in Puttur. A Maruti Omni car hit a female pedestrian walking on the street in Kabaka on the outskirts of Puttur on Friday night resulting in her immediate death. The deceased has been identified as Kusuma (35), wife of

Kasaragod, Dec 20: An auto-rickshaw driver here handed over to the police a hand bag containing 15 sovereigns of gold ornaments left behind in his vehicle by a woman passenger on Friday. Upon spotting the bag containing ornaments, Ravi, 31, a resident of Mulleria, drove to the Town police Station and handed it over to SI K.R. Ambadi around 6 p.m. The bag had been left mistakenly behind by Safnam

Kasaragod, Dec 20: In a major crackdown against illicit liquor manufacturers in the coastal district, police on Friday seized 1,400 litres of spirit that was being smuggled into the State near Uppala. A police team led by DySP T.P. Ranjith seized the spirit filled in 40 plastic cans with a capacity of 35 litre each, from a mini-truck at Anakkallu in the early morning operation. The vehicle

Dec 20: Dalit poet Siddalingaiah has been selected as the president of the 81st Akhila Bharatha Kannada Sahitya Sammelana scheduled to be held at Shravanabelagola in Hassan district in February, 2015. President of Kannada Sahitya Parishat (KSP), Pundalika Halambi announced the name of the Siddalingaiah at a press conference held in the city on Friday. Siddalingaiah's name was suggested by the KSP

Ballari, Dec 20: A?senior manager of Karnataka Bank committed suicide by hanging himself in the bank at Meenakshi Circle here on Friday. According to the police, A?Krishnamurthy (51) was transferred to the Meenakshi Circle branch of Karnataka Bank three years ago. He was said to be under pressure as a few persons involved in mining had failed to repay the loan he had sanctioned. Krishnamurthy

Dubai, Dec 19: In a gut-wrenching tragedy, a safety engineer of a leading architecture and consultancy company in Dubai, fell to his death from a newly completed high rise building in Dubai Investment Park, Jebel Ali. The engineer was inspecting the safety features of the new building with two other engineers when he fell from the sixth floor of the building on Tuesday afternoon. Mohammed Shaheen

Mangaluru, Dec 19: The cutting of cake and singing of Christmas carols symbolically marked the beginning of Christmas celebrations for the year 2014 in the presence of Bishop of Mangaluru Diocese and others in a programme organised by the Catholic Sabha Mangalore Pradesh at Bishop's House, Kodialbail here on Friday. Conveying the message of Christmas to the gathering, Bishop of Mangaluru Diocese

Mangaluru, Dec 19: On a tip off given by the immigration authorities of, the officers of customs at Mangalore International Airport intercepted a female passenger and seized hidden gold ornaments weighing 749.900 grams valued at Rs 16,49,780 from her possession. The gold ornaments packed in two rectangular shaped packets wrapped in adhesive tape, were found concealed in the waist portion

Bangalore, Dec 19: In a heart-warming action, the heart of a brain dead child was airlifted from HAL Airport here to Chennai for transplantation after police created a "green corridor" to enable its unhindered transportation. The heart of the two years ten months old brain dead child was taken from Manipal Hospital here to a Chennai hospital to transplant it to a child aged two years and eight

Mangaluru, Dec 19: œHindutva ideology is strategically deemphasized by the Modi brigade in order to strengthen their stronghold on all the democratic institutions so that Hindu Nationalism may be firmly established within this country,  opined Prof. Anand Teltumbde, the key note speaker of the two-day UGC-sponsored national seminar on'Nationalism as a'Religion': Trends in India'. Speaking after